By the time the three Tokelau teens — Samuel Perez, Filo Filo, and Edward Nasau — were picked up by a tuna boat in a desolate part of the Pacific Ocean, they had already been eulogized and presumed dead.

Pop culture genius Chuck Klosterman took the Acela from Philly to DC with literary genius Jonathan Franzen, and the end result is this exquisite, must-read GQ piece. It’s amazing what can come of putting two men like this together.